Hi guys.Keep us updated with how the winters progressing in USA\CAN with pics if you’ve got em.Mike
We got off pretty lightly here, should have got over 2 feet but it was more like 6 - 8 inches and it is blowing very hard and drifting. Parts of CT got 38 inches including Milford CT where the Pilot truck stop is, the very thought of being stranded at that place would be terrifying 
I’m hoping CT is going to be buried for the next month so that I dont have to transit the bloody place.
Well, not to be left out here is what i did this week. Left yard at Raymond NH with loaded trailer , dropped it at Brunswick ME and p/u empty, dropped it at Hollis Centre ME and p/u loaded trailer, dropped it at Johnstown NY and p/u empty, dropped it at Marcy NY and p/u loaded trailer, dropped it at Oswego NY and p/u empty, dropped it at Dunkirk NY and p/u loaded trailer, dropped it at Raymond NH and p/u loaded trailer, dropped it at Brunswick ME and p/u empty. dropped it at Hollis Center ME and p/u loaded trailer, dropped it at Johnstown NY and p/u loaded trailer ( this is the exciting part now) with three stops on it, Syracuse NY, Fulton NY and Auburn NY, but when the trailers empty it’s back to Dunkirk NY and drop, p/u loaded trailer, then drop it at Raymond NH and go home 
I do this every week but i don’t think you want me to post it every week 
Charles
Well Charles, if you think your week is boreing look at mine. But its regular and it pays the bills nicely.
Orlando Fl, to New Augusta Ms 585 miles each way. Turn it daily, team operation runs Six days Tuesday to Sunday. Three drivers do four trips / week each. Three week rotation, nights and days. We meet a truck out of DallasTx. For the time being the U.S. mail will run, and run.
I am bored just thinking about it.
Paul.
tell you what i think i need to come out of retirement its witherspoons/harvester/toby get quite jealous of you guys unless its a couple of feet of snow you got…
Left the yard Sunday lunchtime for Huntsville tx got shut down at grand forks nd until 11am Monday due to the snow. Left there got to Fargo nd and shut down until 5 pm ran down to Sioux city Iowa that night the tx ok line next day stopped at that big casino there tipped Huntsville reloaded lufkin stopped at the casino last night on my way back for tomorrow evening.
OK …my turn… not typical as usually hauling aggregate but here we go.,in for 8am … coffee,…take half ton to nearby company and return tools (special tools for top end o engine).Back tae yrd check out old girl i drive 98 Mack DM redi mix 6wheeler ,when needed one driver one truck. its first time out this year.,drain my tanks ,well it is warm today only -12c .
9.30am coffee and a snap. 9.45 pull out o heated shed an round the block and under the hopper and fill the sidetank up wi boiling water,jump back intae cab as cruise has cut out ( controls mixer speed when batching ) and floor the throtle until mixed load 5mtr with 5bags o struts in. check temp o load and pick up paperwork…pull out and stop to top up fuel.
Shut radiator blinds (air operated) and thunderbirds are go! 
so out o town west on hwy 23 ,south on hwy 34 …up an down into the valley an up again …at the end of 34 turn west again on #3 pass Pilot Mound , Crystal city …then west again on #3 to Cartwright MB…52 mls done …find the address its a trailer manufacturer …find out what shed im looking for and drive round factory .Well theres a Searcy truck unloading steel in front o the door im needing to reverse in (dang its not one o manitoba expats driving it) reverse in and put my shutes on (3)
The guys are waiting so a few back and forwards and im empty so out the shed an wash out …ff its steam freezing on my glasses .so now make sure my lines are blown out and back in cab and report in to depot.
The next truck a 08 Mack RD has frozen up on road so back out an tell contractor whats up 
Im told tae wait an help next truck unload .
well he turns up and i direct him round other side o building an we pour through a door way…
help him wash out and follow him back tae yard arrive back around 2.30pm park ere up in shed.
and COFFEE time again…spend an hr clean windows,lights …grease swivel on chute .
8hrs in time to go home.
jimmy.
So far this week … Sunday night Ben & Jerry’s in St Albans VT, down to NYC, break, reload and back to St Albans, then home tues afternoon.
Weds … drop and hook in NYC, deliver Scranton PA and back to NYC for break.
Thurs, leave NYC at 01.00, deliver St Albans, then back home again, gotta start at midnight and perform the impossible … down to NYC and reload for Waterbury VT where I will no doubt have to take 10 off again.
Tuesday morning deadhead to Edmonton to load , pass NMM heading South with a still knackered CB , grab load and back to Lloydminster . Weds sees deliveries in Kindersley and Saskatoon then off to Regina for a part load to an urgent customer there .Unload Thursday morning , and for those who weren’t here we’d had rain , snow , and strong winds overnight I was told to run empty to Edmonton again for another load ,oh joy . Loaded there last night and rolled back into our yard at 2pm ,clean and fuel the for once reliable truck ,then off home until next Weds .3300 kms in the bank ,someone pass me a beer .
Q for Mark - does that KW have flat mirrors?
Loaded Tuesday in Selkirk mb for Arlington tn tipped that this morning & im sat in Kingdom City mo tonight loading three drops Alberta tomorrow 8am in Jefferson mo, nice miles & no tarp load too, first drop Lloydminster then Edmonton second, hoping to be home next Thursday/Friday for a couple of days, only had two .weekends away so far this year.
harry:
Q for Mark - does that KW have flat mirrors?
If you mean me and my Peterbilt Harry, yes the main mirrors are flat, got convex ones underneath, my mirrors are one piece, sort of like the version one Volvo FH mirrors
FTTM, I saw you, but yeah, the chicken box is still NFG, ain’t had time to get it into the only CB shop I know (in the Roadkill in Calgary) so peace and tranquillity are the order of the day in the ducknosaur 
My week was a piece of wee wee, went up to Edmonton for Monday am, reloaded Calgary for a Tuesday am Saskatoon, went to Chamberlain SK and switched for another that was going to Edmonton then on to Lethbridge, dropped the trailer and switched for an empty in Lethbridge, loaded that in Medicine Hat, switched again for Calgary, dropped that and hooked another empty which I loaded in Medicine Hat again and then home, close to 3,500miles and only had one big day and that was day one, but I did that flat out with a brief stop for coffee and fuel at Saskatoon on the way up, so pulled into Edmonton, which is 855miles from the yard ,13 and a half hours later, giddy up…
Home until Tuesday now, party time tomorrow night, Dave lmao or whatever he calls himself now is 60 (he reckons it’s 50, but nobody can have had that hard a life surely ) so I will be helping him celebrate in the time honoured tradition of drinking beer until I’m spewing my hoop
Mark; How could I not recognise it! My mate Tony in UK ,a retired trucker,kept this one for years.It used to do the Ice Roads. Have you seen this company around? It might have been an O/O?
I had probs with the flat mirrors with the Whites I drove. Great in a straight line but reversing on the blind side was a pain.
I made the Waterbury VT with 1 hour left and had to take 8 hours off having booked 2 in NYC for a short nap. I got a free tour of the Ben and Jerry orriginal plant and tourist attraction, been delivering Ben and Jerry’s for 6 years and never too take that tour, I mentioned it to the reciever and he took me to see the whole works, then as there is no freakin’ TV signal anywhere I watched a couple of DVD’s, got home at 11.30 pm for the weekend, next Ben and Jerry delivery Monday at 23.00.
Manitoba down to Texas upto Alberta then back across to Manitoba; 7575 km in 8 days; snowed most days even in Amarillo.
Having hoped for Domino sugar to get all of B&J deliveries back, I regret that it seems my life is gonna be a bit repetative as the reason I was taken on by the company to deliver there when I started. I was quite enjoying travelling around the north east corner.
Pat Hasler:
I was quite enjoying travelling around the north east corner.
Is that actually possible?!
newmercman:
harry:
Q for Mark - does that KW have flat mirrors?Mark, you can get the CB fixed in winnipeg, off Lagmodiere north of Arnold bros canad inns on left, somehwere behind there. he’s normaaly on the CB…calls himself grizzly bear though that won’t be much use. Don’t your company supply them? Peterbilt had a sale on the other day…$120 for one of those fany cobras!
If you mean me and my Peterbilt Harry, yes the main mirrors are flat, got convex ones underneath, my mirrors are one piece, sort of like the version one Volvo FH mirrorsFTTM, I saw you, but yeah, the chicken box is still NFG, ain’t had time to get it into the only CB shop I know (in the Roadkill in Calgary) so peace and tranquillity are the order of the day in the ducknosaur
My week was a piece of wee wee, went up to Edmonton for Monday am, reloaded Calgary for a Tuesday am Saskatoon, went to Chamberlain SK and switched for another that was going to Edmonton then on to Lethbridge, dropped the trailer and switched for an empty in Lethbridge, loaded that in Medicine Hat, switched again for Calgary, dropped that and hooked another empty which I loaded in Medicine Hat again and then home, close to 3,500miles and only had one big day and that was day one, but I did that flat out with a brief stop for coffee and fuel at Saskatoon on the way up, so pulled into Edmonton, which is 855miles from the yard ,13 and a half hours later, giddy up…
Home until Tuesday now, party time tomorrow night, Dave lmao or whatever he calls himself now is 60 (he reckons it’s 50, but nobody can have had that hard a life surely
Steve, thanks for that, yeah Brandt’s pay for the CBs, I’ve got a souped up Cobra 29 nightwatch, they paid for the souping up too, just got to get it in and fixed, ain’t really bothered as I don’t use it much, it’s handy for finding out traffic and weather and saying hello if I see one of the few people I talk too whilst I’m on my travels, other than that it just sits there unused